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I don’t think there’s a better combination than peanut butter and chocolate. When I was a kid one of my favorite “sneaky” snacks was a scoop of peanut butter out of the jar and a glass of chocolate milk. So, when I ran across this recipe for a peanut butter and chocolate cookie, I knew I needed to try it! Not only do these cookies have peanut butter chips, they also have a bit of peanut butter right in the batter. Perfect!

First, mix together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. I actually did this in a separate bowl this time to make sure the cocoa powder was mixed in well. Usually I just throw the dry ingredients in after the wet.

Next, use a mixer to beat together the butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.

Add the egg and the egg yolk (and don’t drop half the egg shell in like I did!). Then add the vanilla.

Then, add the flour mixture and mix it up.

Best part – add the peanut butter chips. The bad thing about the Reese’s brand peanut butter chips is they come in a 1-3/4 cups bag. I have no recipes that call for that number of peanut butter chips or any logical division of that. So usually I’m left with part of a bag of peanut butter chips. The good thing, I’m left with part of a bag of peanut butter chips and no good use except to eat them!

Drop the cookies onto a cooking sheet (I LOVE parchment paper – I use it all the time now!) and bake those babies!

I found the dough to be stickier than normal and was a little worried that the cookies would spread out too much or otherwise be a disaster but they turned out great.

If being Valentine’s day and all, I baked a batch of these, a batch of my new favorite cookie, and a batch of these weird strawberry cookies and packaged them up for my co-workers. There was A LOT of sugar in the office today, but I think everyone enjoyed them.

Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies

I found the original recipe at handletheheat.com here. (Super cute name, right?)

Everything you’ll need:

1-1/4 cups flour

1/3 cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1/4 cup peanut butter

1/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup peanut butter chips

Directions:

In a bowl mixture together the flour (1-1/4 cups), cocoa powder (1/3 cup), baking powder (1 t), and salt (1/4 t). Set aside for the time being.